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Perennial Agriculture Beyond Permaculture

1d 8h ago in farming@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Using Flies to Manufacture Fertilizer: A Nutrient Revolution Tailored for the Global South

21d 9h ago in farming@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

How the West Lost to China in the EV Race

21d 9h ago in electricvehicles@slrpnk.net from www.youtube.com

Demand the tech we deserve

3mon 1d ago in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Is agroecology an academic discipline, social movement, or methodology?

3mon 17d ago in farming@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

3 Ideas for Better Community Gardens

4mon 20d ago in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Urbanists and Agrarians are Natural Allies

5mon 19d ago in urbanism@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Chemicals -- The next frontier of decarbonization

6mon 4d ago in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

How Traditional Cultures Grew Resilience with Perennials

6mon 18d ago in farming@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Look at your state's and Brokerage's Escheatment policies and procedures. My brokerage will send out a letter prior to taking any actions (and I'd assume they'd also send an email, but idk). Phone calls to the brokerage checking in on the account or direct deposits all count as activity (though with the phone calls, I'd confirm the account number to make sure they're talking about the right account). https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/escheatment-financial-institutions

Movements as Forests: Lessons from a Philanthropy Experiment

9mon 29d ago in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from medium.com

Charity with fewer mechanisms of control from the donator

Unfortunately I have been proven wrong :/

One counterexample I would like to point out is the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare seems to have made that program another one of the 'third rail' policies alongside Social Security and Medicare

Breeding Crops for Polycultures

1y 2mon ago in farming@slrpnk.net from headwatersblog.substack.com

Alley cropping has a lot of advantages and scales well depending on one's goals. If you wanted to have large combines, you can simply make the alleys wider. Its all about tradeoffs. I'll have to look into Kentucky coffeetree, I imagine that their bean pods would make good livestock fodder.

Regarding the alfalfa wheat intercrop, the goal is actually to harvest the wheat for grain, with the alfalfa functioning as a sort of fertilizer crop (that's still harvested for forage after the wheat is harvested). There are a lot of barriers, so it's an active area of research, but it's a really interesting topic.

I think ocean iron fertilization has some promise to it, and it has the benefit of being able to be experimented with at a small scale and subsequently scaled up responsibly to measure effects. Aerosols are kind of a one and done solution, and if for any reason its suspended, their is a boomerang effect that drives warming even higher

Its definitely the plot of termination shock

You don't need to buy most things for your laundry

1y 2mon ago in anticonsumption@slrpnk.net from lemm.ee

It's also ridiculous how many products are just trucking water around from one place to another with a little big of active solution mixed in. We need more 'just add water' products available.

Lessons from the World's Largest Cooperative

1y 3mon ago in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from substack.com

Definitely a valid critique of Mondragon in the modern era, its commitment to the 10% ratio has atrophied somewhat. It's still something that ebbs and flows, for example there is a current push to transfer 35,000 non-member workers in their retail coop into full members (from a total of 50,000 workers). From numbers I've seen, 85% of employees are still members, which is pretty good.

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1y 3mon ago in climate@slrpnk.net

Yeah, I think its useful to continue trialing out the technology and see if it can hold up to snuff. But at the same time banking on this idea as our only approach to decarbonizing protein (which is what the beef industry would prefer) is short sighted, imo